your papers, please
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I honestly thought it could have been an urban legend, but the United States is now requiring all air and sea passengers to have their photo and fingerprint taken when arriving and departing the country. It seems that asking "are you a terrorist? yes/no" on the entry visa application form is not sufficient anymore, your personal privacy needs to be volated, too.
I've said before that I will never go to the US while George W. Bush is in power. There is no way I will be going there now, at least until the country as a whole regains a bit of a clue again.
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I would dearly like to think it's for the same reasons as why we are forced to endure personal violations at airport metal detectors - like getting stripped down if the detector goes off or having nail scissors seized. Purely there to keep stupid people happy.
But I think it's more likely to just be used as yet another data-point in Echelon or some successor to the Total Information Awareness programme.
Effectively, the system is there to spy on people from around the world. Yay!
Posted by: mike on January 6, 2004 05:32 PM
i think dubya is getting a LITTLE bit paranoid now.
shit they must be getting lots of threats or they wouldn't be going crazy.
i feel way sorry for my american friends, and have offered to hide them under my stairs.
*sob*
no road trip from colorado to vegas in a cadillac 'fear and loathing' style for me either.
hmph dubya, and you're little dog too!
xJ
Posted by: jules on January 7, 2004 02:20 PM
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